Assessing the impact of revisions to the EU horizontal food labelling legislation

Jan Tiessen, Lila Rabinovich, Flavia Tsang, Christian Van Stolk

ResearchPublished Feb 3, 2008

The European horizontal food labelling regulation is designed to provide consumers with the necessary information to make informed food choices and to create a competitive single market in the European Union. In recent years, the horizontal food labelling legislation has, however, been increasingly criticised for becoming more and more complex and unclear, making it both difficult for consumers to find and use information and making it complicated and expensive for business to comply with the regulations. Against this background, the European Commission is currently preparing a revision of the European horizontal food labelling legislation and commissioned RAND Europe to conduct an assessment of the economic, social and environmental impacts of different policy options. This report analyses each option, paying particular attention to how these alternatives would affect the strategic goals of the Commission and key stakeholders in this process. The report concludes with a qualitative comparison of the impact of each policy option against the current situation.

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Tiessen, Jan, Lila Rabinovich, Flavia Tsang, and Christian Van Stolk, Assessing the impact of revisions to the EU horizontal food labelling legislation. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2008. https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR532.html.
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